Yup. 1C have proved a little bit lacking in that area. As well.

But, hey, it is also fun to find out stuff by ourselves... - And it keeps the XBox crowd away...

And: If any newbie finds this guide lacking, pls tell me where it is less than pedagogical and I'll try to rectify it.

- And to the oldtimers... - If you find any gross errors in the guide pls tell me...

Any idea what could be wrong?

when trying to start Spitfire engine it does start, but after few seconds stops.

Make sure you turn the fuel cock on and verify its on in the cockpit. If the fuel cock doesn't turn on, make sure you haven't selected unlimited fuel in the realism settings.

Fuel cock should be on, but currently the whole multiplayer stuff is so unstable (at least in my PC), that I think I'll wait for the next patch before continuing CEM experimenting. I get freezes almost every time.

What keeps you from playing around with the CEM offline?

Should be on?? I have to turn the fuel cock on in the Spit.

Yeah, it isn't on by default. You have to turn it on.

BTW, I did the exact same thing early on and was pretty frustrated about not getting the engine to start. Then I watched jimbo's great vids and learned...

The Spit usually needs about 10 -12% throttle as well, it then takes some time to warm up, slowly throttle it up as the engine warms, or else you will stall it.

Not sure of your PC equipment, but I would suggest trying either turning off shadows, turn the textures to medium and turn trees to off, you may not need to do the first two depending on your set up, but the trees off is apparently helping with the online sound loss issue, also SSAO off and no epileptic filter, unless you feel you need it on that is.